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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Is The World Flat Again? How An Old Debate Was Revived In Tunisia

The following article was published on
the WorldCrunch website on April 6th of 2017. It seems that the
world may indeed be flat because Allah deems it so.Ed.

A Tunisian
doctoral student has joined several poorly informed American celebrities in
reopening the question of whether the Earth is flat or round.

In our age of endless debates and
alternative facts, at least we thought this question was long settled. Everyone
from Ferdinand Magellan to Apollo
astronauts had provided the proof that our world — messy as it might be —
is round. Not flat. Right?

Well, at the highest levels of
Tunisian academia, one doctoral student has reopened the question. Since 2011,
the aspiring PhD at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Sfax has been
working on a thesis in geology entitled: "The flat, Geocentric Model of
the Earth, Arguments and Impact of Climate and Paleoclimactic Studies."

In short, her thesis was that the
Earth is flat. She has gone to great lengths to refute the theories of Newton, Kepler and Einstein, whose work apparently had
serious flaws that others have failed to see over the past several centuries.
The doctoral student puts forth a new vision of kinetics that, instead,
conforms to the verses of the Koran.

Just a rough draft?

She was quoted in the French-language
magazine Jeune
Afrique as having written that "'all the data and the physical,
religious arguments have made it possible to demonstrate the central position,
the fixation and the flattening of the surface of the Earth, the revolution of
the Sun and the Moon around it.' She then argued that 'the stars … have three
roles: to be scenery in the sky; to stone the devils and as signs to guide the
creatures in the darkness of the Earth.'"

Her proof is hopefully better than
that of former NBA superstar and current TV commentator Shaquille O'Neal who voiced
his own astronomical observations earlier this year. "When I'm in my
plane, and we're getting ready to land, and I open up the window, and I'm
looking at all the land that we're flying over; [the Earth] seems to be
flat."

At least when criticized,
"Shaq" admitted he was joking. The professor overseeing the student's
thesis retorted: "It's just a rough draft."

The student's work could provide
scientific backing to a league of "flat-Earthers" on social media and
celebrities who double as science experts. The rapper B.o.B,
debated the question with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson last year, and TV
personality Tila Tequila ranted about the subject on YouTube before she moved
onto becoming a full-time Nazi. Oh, and then there's the Flat Earth Society on Facebook who dub themselves
"flatists" and devote their time to "flatist" literature,
books often overlooked by most academic institutions. The Facebook page boasts
more than 60,000 likes — ironic or not.

But in Tunisia, the spectacle of a
graduate student opening up the issue has caused a true stir. Critics say that
the woman's theories are an embarrassment to the Tunisian education system.
"How could such a work be accepted in the doctoral school since
2011?," University of Tunis professor Faouzia Charfi told Jeune Afrique.
"How can we accept that the University is not the space of knowledge, of
scientific rigor, but that of the negation of science? That where science is refused because
it is not in conformity with Islam?"

Another hint to her professors that
the work was problematic was the grammatical and syntactical mistakes that pop
up throughout the paper. For both those devoted to science or faith, all can
agree on the sacred duty to use spell check.